Reading Time: 1 Min. It’s that spooky frisson that makes you, for a split second, want to throw your book across the room. Or chuckle. Or flail, blindly, for the familiar barrier between storyworld and readerworld—you know, your world. There’s nothing as electric as an experimental flourish executed well, and metafiction (defined, loosely, as fiction […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Editor and literary critic Oscar Villalon joins V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to celebrate the life and legacy of the novelist Cormac McCarthy, who died last month. The hosts and Villalon reflect on McCarthy’s vast vocabulary and cinematic descriptions, in which he juxtaposed lyrical prose with graphic violence. Villalon considers McCarthy’s […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Mary Lavin in 1966. Photograph: Evelyn Hofer/Getty “I’ve seen it at Kilmallock,” says writer Kathleen MacMahon. ”It was amazing, really, because we were, in fact, in the middle of the fields.” The title story of a collection of Mary Lavin’s short stories, In the Middle of the Fields, has been adopted […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. An award-winning poet whose debut literary novel has already been incredibly well received, Sian Hughes shares her experience of putting pen to paper in the hopes of finding meaning in the depths of tragedy. Setting out armed with grief and confusion, Sian Hughes attempted to write her way into understanding what […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Nicole Flattery, author of Nothing Special, photographed by Maria Ródenas Sáinz de Baranda. There is no writer working today whose work makes me feel like Nicole Flattery ’s does. I first came to her fiction a few years ago through her collection of short stories, Show Them a Good Time . […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. opinionated commentary on literary matters – from the complete review Swiss philosopher Peter Bieri — better-known under the name under which he published his novels, Pascal Mercier — has passed away; see, for example, the SWI swissinfo.ch . His best-known novel is under review at the — . I missed this […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. 1 of 5 | FILE – Playwright Arthur Miller poses in front of his farmhouse, where he lives with his actress wife, in Roxbury, Conn., Aug. 7, 1958. Miller’s studio, originally built at his former Roxbury home, is where he wrote and revised various plays, his autobiography “Timebends,” and screenplays for […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. IN THE SUMMER of 2016, novelist Hannah Pittard made a painful, world-altering discovery—that her then-husband was having an affair with her best friend. As a human being, she reeled; as a writer, she began to process the experience in the only way she knew how: by translating it onto the page. […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Books about writing are a genre all their own, but books on how to write well almost exclusively default to the perspective of the white and cisgender experience of making books. The most popular and well-known books on craft have been from non-Black authors, from Natalie Goldberg’s 1986 classic, “Writing Down […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. There ain’t no party like a Jay Gatsby party — in “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s debonair poster boy of American ambition and the nouveau riche never lets the festivities stop. Neither does Immersive Everywhere’s “The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show,” a jovial feast for the senses that never, in […]
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